Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-08-27

SACRAMENTO SATURDAY MORNING,

be divided and sold at prices ranging from
$50 to 500 per acre. Ioio county has
room for twenty persons where she has one
now, and the dividing Of large holdings is
the proper course to develop her resources
and advantages. 4 gentleman engaged IN
fruit culture gives the following as the
yield in this section: Apricots 300 pounds
peaches 800 pounds, pears 400 pounds,
plums 100 pounds, prunes 200 pounds figs,
when fifteen years old, 1000 pounds
grapes, from eight to sixteen tons per acre
In making estimates it is customary to
figure los trees TO the acre. The longevity
of trees is estimated as follows: Apricot
80, pear 200, plum 80, peach - years.
Most other fruit-bearing trees live from y
TO % years.
RAMIE CULTURE.
Much attention is being attracted to iha
cultivation of this plant recently be canse
it is designed to take the place of i'm eorted
silks, and possibly may prove a pr duct of
the heretofore waste land. J. 7. NJ cMabon
of Winters, is testing ramie nlture in
Yolo, and expresses great sat .sfaction at
the results attained so far. II c saws ramie
is similar to iute, but the fib' n has greater
| strength, and possesses a lustre only
equaled by that Of silk. t is used exten-
sively as substitute for silk. The finest
satin and silk laces fro m Europe contain
over 90 per cent. of r.amie. 1t takes dive
perfectly. The West.p Fiber Company.
of San Francisco, will pay five cents a
pound for ramie, end an acre will produce
1000 pounds, Which would be S100 per
acre. In Louisiana the cost of cultivation
is said to be $40 or $50, thus leaving a fair
margin or profit.
Professor Higard, Of the State Univer-
sity, is authority for the statement that
ramie is grown successfully ON the alkali
lands of San Joaquin county. Mr.. Darby,
Of Bakersfield, has several acres growing in
swamp land somewhat similar to Yolo tule
land. The plants are perennial, and are
! said to live and produce for fifteen wears
: The estimate made by Mr. McMahon OF
/ 1000 pounds per acre must be taken as the
4 minimum. as other experiments do not
hesitate in placing the product of an acre
. at from 1000 to 5000 pounds. If, as esti.
mated, ramie can be cultivated on Yolc
) swamp lands, it would prove an unexpect.
J ed source of profit and wealth that would
I add greatly to the remunerative industries
0 of Iolo county.
0 SCENERY.
: Many sections of California outriva
0 Yolo in the grandeur of scenery, but fol
= | diversified scenery on 4 limited scale, few
6 counties present better showing than tha
0 | Of Yolo. The accompanying cut Of Moore
! ! Dam, on Cache creek, five miles from
3 Woodland, is true representation Of wha
. nature has done in the way of embellish
9 ing Yolo water courses. \ thousand scene
:, of interest may be seen, not only along
Cache creek, but upon the banks of thu
o Sacramento and through the length o
0 Capay and Pleasants valleys.
q LAND VALUATION.
. The same pamphlet also contains the iol
= lowing on the subject of land values:
q The best improved lands in Yolo, Will
o choice of location, can be bought for S10t
. to $3.50 per acre. The same quality o